Nexus '96
Relationships Between
Architecture and Mathematics
FUCECCHIO - Palazzo Della Volta
9 - 12 June 1996
Summary of the Arguments
Kim Williams
Introduction
Jay Kappraff
Musical Proportions at the Basis of Systems of Architectural Proportions both Ancient and Modern
Benno Artmann
The Cloisters of Hauterive
Mario Salvadori
Can There Be Any Relationships
between Mathematics and Architecture?
Paul A. Calter
Facade Measurement by Trigonomety
David Speiser
The Symmetries of the Baptistery
and the Leaning Tower of Pisa
John Clagett
Transformational Geometry
and the Central European Baroque Church
Livio Volpi Ghirardini
The Numberable Architecture of Leon Battista Alberti as a Universal Sign of Order and Harmony
Michele Emmer
Soap Bubbles and Soap Films
Carol Martin Watts
The Square and the Roman House:
Architecture and Decoration at Pompeii and Herculaneum
Heinz Götze
Friedrich II and the Love of Geometry
Donald J. Watts
The Praxis of Roman Geometrical Ordering in the Design of a New American Prairie House
Istvan and Magdolna Hargittai
The Universality of the Symmetry Concept
Kim Williams
Verrocchio's Tombslab for Cosimo de' Medici Designing with a Mathematical Vocabulary
George Gheveghese Joseph
Geometry of Vedic Altars
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